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So that it is no marvel though the soul so placed enjoy no rest, if that principle be true, that Motus rerum est rapidus extra locum, placidus in loco.
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Valerius has compressed the last three lines into _rapidus nondum quas miscuit Auster_.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Formae uero nitor ut rapidus est, ut uelox et uernalium florum mutabilitate fugacior!
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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So that it is no marvel though the soul so placed enjoy no rest, if that principle be true, that Motus rerum est rapidus extra locum, placidus in loco.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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Nonne rapidus aquae centrum, deorfum, quae infifa fluxus delapfus, ubi ad me - illud, furfum ponere« £rgo fi
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua: Plutarchi Chaeronensis ... 1797
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Hic ad ex tempore dicen - dum ingenio valuit, & in dicendo rapidus fuit.
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Taysis qui rapidus et vorticosus in Histri fluenta furens devolvitur, (Jornandes, c. 5, p. 194, edit.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Taysis qui rapidus et vorticosus in Histri fluenta furens devolvitur, (Jornandes, c. 5, p. 194, edit.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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a gdu tum claudit hiems, nec femine jado cretam patitur radicem adfigere terrae. uma vinetis fatio, quum vere rubenti dida venit avis, longis invifa colubris; oa vel audumni fub frigora, quum rapidus fol idum hiemem contingit equis, jam praeterit aefius. adeo frondi riemonun, ver utile filvis;
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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"Neque enim fempsr es rapidus % et tarirens, fed pro tempotum rationc moderate.
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